In This Chapter

• Rotating or cropping an image
• Making an image larger or smaller
• Fixing leaning buildings and other perspective work
• Applying different frames to your image

In this chapter we will show you how to add a frame or border to your image and how to crop and resize an image. We will also show you how to straighten an image and correct perspective distortion. Most importantly, we show you where to find these options in GIMP. Table 4-1 gives an overview of the tasks in the chapter. We don't expect you to work through every exercise, choose the tasks that interest you. This way you will have more fun.

Straightening or Rotating an Image

An image might be horizontally or vertically crooked. This is a very common task and an easy one for a beginner.